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Published: September 11th 2006
Arrived in Brussels to a regional airport that was about an hour away from the city centre. Luckily they had a bus that ran to the city every hour. I hopped on it and made it to the centre at about 5pm.
The first mission for me was to find a place to stay since i'd arrived without booking a room. Still as organised as ever.
I visited the tourist office which i knew booked rooms for free, and they found a hostel for me quite easily. I found it and as luck would have it, it had its own bar. I went out for dinner and then headed for the bar.
I met an American guy who was in the same room as me, so we had a few beers between us and stumbled to bed (not together!) at about 1am. The next day, i decided to head to the train station and see if i could get to Luxembourg. Like Slovenia, its one of those countries you don't really hear about in terms of tourism, but i read that it was really nice.
The train ride was three hours, so i hopped on and arrived in Lux City at about 2.30.
The city is quite beautiful, built around a huge fortified castle. You can clearly see remains of the fortress throughout the city. Took a heap of photos and checked out the casements. Spent about 5 hours there before deciding i'd better head back to Brussels. Caught a train and ended up back at the hostel around 11pm. Met up with my American friend and decided to have a couple of quiet beers at the hostel bar. We met a couple of Swedish girls so the couple of beers turned into a couple more and I got to bed at around 3am. Check out was 10am, so as I write this I'm pretty tired (and sick of using weird keyboards).
I've got a flight booked to Dublin tonight at about 7pm (about 4am in Aus) so I'm spending the day checking out the sites in Brussels.
See you in Ireland.
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Its awesome the way you managed to sound so dissapointed when you write about your American friend "...stumbled to bed(!not together)[unfortunately]". Swedish Chicks though...Thats why people travel in Europe...Wicked. Not much happening here...though we have had some nice weather and chicks are starting to wear less...you'd love it.